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Game » consists of 28 releases. Released Oct 23, 2001
Everything you need isn't always spelled out for you on the map. Sometimes even the map is not there till you go explore it.
Extreme violence pertains to excessive amounts of blood, gore, or violent acts. These include decapitation, mutilation, dismemberment, amputation, defenestration, disembowelment, torture and much more.
Advertisements sometimes appear in game as a spoof on real-life advertisements, or to further envelope the player in the video game world.
Receiving damage or dying as a result of falling.
The national investigative arm of the American government, the FBI (as commonly abbreviated) is tasked with upholding and enforcing the criminal laws of the United States, and to providing leadership and criminal justice services to federal, state, municipal, and international agencies and partners.
The Federal Investigation Bureau is a federal agency of law enforcement in the GTA universe parodying the real-life FBI.
Games that feature an antagonist--someone who opposes the game's protagonist--that is a woman.
In order to avoid licensing issues, many games simply create fictional car brands.
The Forelli Family is one of the "gangs" in the Grand Theft Auto series.
Full Reactive Eyes Entertainment (named to fit the acronym 'FREE') is a quasi-genre invented by designer Yu Suzuki, describing a blend of adventure and open-world sandbox gameplay found in the Shenmue franchise.
The second annual Game Developers Choice Awards celebrated the best games of 2001.
A gang isn't just two crude dudes, it's a whole mess of them. There's all kinds of different gangs represented in games: street gangs, organized criminals, and even high school cliques.
A system that gives a game the technical capability to implement the effects of gore which include but are not limited to, dismemberment, charring, beheading and gibbing. Gore systems have progressed significantly over the years from enemies scattering into pixels to highly detailed body tearing.
For MMO's that survive for a number of years, the developers often revamp the look of the game to keep it fresh and current. This could mean redesigning the character models or even entire zones/regions of the game.
The legal restriction of how guns may be interacted with by civilians.
A heads-up display is a graphical overlay of vital information used in most modern games.
Most modern shooting games add the realistic touch of rendering shots to the cranium instantly fatal. Glorious for the shooter, kind of a bummer to the shootee.
Health is a value that gauges how much damage players can take in a game before they die or pass out. Also known as life in some games. Health is usually represented by a bar or a percentage instead of an exact amount. Found in most non sport games
Hip-Hop is a type of urban culture that has been featured in many videogames to varying extents, in movies, and in all around pop culture. Hip-Hop includes Rap music/Emceeing, graffiti art, DJ'ing, and breakdancing.
Hostile Territory is defined as being within enemy control. Hard to find a friendly face here.
An in-engine cinematic is a type of cutscene that is rendered in real time using the game's graphics engine.
Games often feature in-game music, however some have taken the effort to create their own radio stations, with DJ's, talkback, and a variety of music.
Characters who speak with an Italian flavoured accent, usually second generation immigrants.
Law is a rule or a system of rules, usually enforced through a set of institutions, applied to govern a group.
The act of breaking the law.
Games that incorporate licensed music from popular bands and musicians for their soundtracks.
A stylistic choice of employing small polygon counts for meshes.
This concept is for games in which at least one of the main characters is male.
The head of a city government. The perfect candidate if your game needs a rear end in a top hat.
A fixer of mechanical things that are broken. It's always good to have one near your tank or spaceship.
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